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Hands on the wheel, Ryohei rolls his eyes as Jae Joong goes into his 56th reason as to "WHY RYOHEI SHOULD SHAVE HIS FACIAL HAIR AND NEVER THINK ABOUT GROWING IT AGAIN FOR AS LONG AS I AM BEAUTIFUL -- WHICH IS FOREVER, OF COURSE."

Keita laughs heartily before he realises that Junsu has just started to eat out of his bento. There is screaming and wailing and a gazillion "one touches" and then Ryuichi's voice ringing out as he starts to collect bets on who's going to win this one.

Ryohei is convinced he is driving a truckload of animals to the beach.

It's drizzling outside and ChangMin buries his nose deeper into his book, far too intrigued by wizards and dragons and evil villains who just won't die to bother about the ruckus the others were making.

A flash of lightning, a huge rumble of thunder, and ChangMin looks out the window and sighs.

"Min..."

He turns to his left and finds YooChun staring at something in his hands.

"What's up hyung?"

"I..."

"STOP THAT JAEJOONG!! I AM DRIVING DAMMIT!!"

And the car swerves suddenly and ChangMin doesn't get to hear the rest of his hyung's words.

"Calm down. It was probably some trick on the eyes or something," he says in a voice that betrays the fact that he thinks anything but that. He closes his eyes and rests his forehead to the steering wheel as he gestures for someone to get YunHo and JaeJoong back into the car.

There was still quite a distance left before they were saf--- at the beach, he chides himself. It wasn't like they were in any sort of danger. Silly thoughts, really.

The rest of the trip passes in awkward silence, and the only things moving are Ryohei's hands as they steer the wheel.

However, at the sight of the sandy beach and the flurry of activity upon it, Keita is the first to return to his cheery demeanour and Ryohei has barely stopped the car before the tall singer throws himself out the door and bounds off for the shoreline.

Keita's child-like antics succeed in bringing small smiles to most of their faces. Ryohei too, chuckles like a father watching his son, and helps to unload the picnic stuff with YunHo and Junsu.

Everyone, save Keita who is now belting out a random medley of summer songs as he splashes about in the water, has a hand in bringing the stuff towards the choice sandy spot for their picnic. They do this with smiles on their faces, but they are quiet still.